Outing . arch to find a country fairwhich is not a mere annex of the race trackand the syndicate amusement fakir. Thereare still a few favored regions, however,where you may spend a mildly merry dayin autumn in company with those oldfriends and favorites that swarmed alongthe borderland of boyhood enchantments;where the devices for humbugging themultitude are delightfully transparent;and where homely folk find amusement andinstruction in simple, old-time ways. I knew that I had found the real thingwhen the husky voice of a medicine manfloated from his platform just inside thehigh board fence.
Outing . arch to find a country fairwhich is not a mere annex of the race trackand the syndicate amusement fakir. Thereare still a few favored regions, however,where you may spend a mildly merry dayin autumn in company with those oldfriends and favorites that swarmed alongthe borderland of boyhood enchantments;where the devices for humbugging themultitude are delightfully transparent;and where homely folk find amusement andinstruction in simple, old-time ways. I knew that I had found the real thingwhen the husky voice of a medicine manfloated from his platform just inside thehigh board fence. He was grayer andrustier than when we had last met a dozenyears ago, but his eloquence was as magicalas of yore. He could no longer makeheadway at the up-to-date State Fairs,where the farmer is fresh from reading thelatest drug and nostrum exposuresserved piping hot in the magazines on hisparlor table. His story had become thread- Copyrighted, 1907, by the Outing Publishing Company. All rights reserved. 3.
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